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[v3,3/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory

Message ID 20210304100002.7740-4-osalvador@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Allocate memmap from hotadded memory (per device) | expand

Commit Message

Oscar Salvador March 4, 2021, 10 a.m. UTC
Self stored memmap leads to a sparse memory situation which is unsuitable
for workloads that requires large contiguous memory chunks, so make this
an opt-in which needs to be explicitly enabled.

To control this, let memory_hotplug have its own memory space, as suggested
by David, so we can add memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter.

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
 mm/Makefile                                     |  5 ++++-
 mm/memory_hotplug.c                             |  8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Hildenbrand March 5, 2021, 3:35 p.m. UTC | #1
On 04.03.21 11:00, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> Self stored memmap leads to a sparse memory situation which is unsuitable
> for workloads that requires large contiguous memory chunks, so make this
> an opt-in which needs to be explicitly enabled.
> 
> To control this, let memory_hotplug have its own memory space, as suggested
> by David, so we can add memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> ---
>   Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   mm/Makefile                                     |  5 ++++-
>   mm/memory_hotplug.c                             |  8 +++++++-
>   3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 04545725f187..e626dab39c60 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2794,6 +2794,20 @@
>   			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
>   			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
>   
> +	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
> +			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.

Right now it can be set on any arch with memory hotplug, right? It's 
simply not effective.

> +			Format: {on | off (default)}
> +			When enabled, memory to build the pages tables for the
> +			memmap array describing the hot-added range will be taken
> +			from the range itself, so the memmap page tables will be
> +			self-hosted.
> +			Since only single memory device ranges are supported at
> +			the moment, this option is disabled by default because
> +			it might have an impact on workloads that needs large
> +			contiguous memory chunks.
> +			The state of the flag can be read in
> +			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.

Maybe want to add that even if enabled, there are cases where it is not 
effective?

> +
>   	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
>   			Format: <integer>
>   			default : 0 <disable>
> diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
> index 72227b24a616..82ae9482f5e3 100644
> --- a/mm/Makefile
> +++ b/mm/Makefile
> @@ -58,9 +58,13 @@ obj-y			:= filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
>   page-alloc-y := page_alloc.o
>   page-alloc-$(CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR) += shuffle.o
>   
> +# Give 'memory_hotplug' its own module-parameter namespace
> +memory-hotplug-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
> +
>   obj-y += page-alloc.o
>   obj-y += init-mm.o
>   obj-y += memblock.o
> +obj-y += $(memory-hotplug-y)
>   
>   ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>   	obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS)	+= madvise.o
> @@ -83,7 +87,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN)	+= kasan/
>   obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/
>   obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST)		+= memtest.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 63e5a0e9a6f3..94b0ec3d2ff2 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,13 @@
>   #include "internal.h"
>   #include "shuffle.h"
>   
> -static bool memmap_on_memory;
> +
> +/*
> + * memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter
> + */
> +static bool memmap_on_memory __ro_after_init;
> +module_param(memmap_on_memory, bool, 0444);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(memmap_on_memory, "Enable memmap on memory for memory hotplug");
>   

Wondering if this makes sense getting wrapped in

#ifdef CONFIG MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY

just a thought.

LGTM

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Oscar Salvador March 8, 2021, 3:46 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 04:35:08PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 04.03.21 11:00, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > index 04545725f187..e626dab39c60 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -2794,6 +2794,20 @@
> >   			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
> >   			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
> > +	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
> > +			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
> 
> Right now it can be set on any arch with memory hotplug, right? It's simply
> not effective.

Right.

> > +			Format: {on | off (default)}
> > +			When enabled, memory to build the pages tables for the
> > +			memmap array describing the hot-added range will be taken
> > +			from the range itself, so the memmap page tables will be
> > +			self-hosted.
> > +			Since only single memory device ranges are supported at
> > +			the moment, this option is disabled by default because
> > +			it might have an impact on workloads that needs large
> > +			contiguous memory chunks.
> > +			The state of the flag can be read in
> > +			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
> 
> Maybe want to add that even if enabled, there are cases where it is not
> effective?

Sure, I already added a hint.

> > +static bool memmap_on_memory __ro_after_init;
> > +module_param(memmap_on_memory, bool, 0444);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(memmap_on_memory, "Enable memmap on memory for memory hotplug");
> 
> Wondering if this makes sense getting wrapped in
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY
> 
> just a thought.

Definitely, will wrapp it with MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY.

> 
> LGTM
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Thanks!
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 04545725f187..e626dab39c60 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2794,6 +2794,20 @@ 
 			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
 			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
 
+	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
+			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
+			Format: {on | off (default)}
+			When enabled, memory to build the pages tables for the
+			memmap array describing the hot-added range will be taken
+			from the range itself, so the memmap page tables will be
+			self-hosted.
+			Since only single memory device ranges are supported at
+			the moment, this option is disabled by default because
+			it might have an impact on workloads that needs large
+			contiguous memory chunks.
+			The state of the flag can be read in
+			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
+
 	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
 			Format: <integer>
 			default : 0 <disable>
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 72227b24a616..82ae9482f5e3 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -58,9 +58,13 @@  obj-y			:= filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
 page-alloc-y := page_alloc.o
 page-alloc-$(CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR) += shuffle.o
 
+# Give 'memory_hotplug' its own module-parameter namespace
+memory-hotplug-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
+
 obj-y += page-alloc.o
 obj-y += init-mm.o
 obj-y += memblock.o
+obj-y += $(memory-hotplug-y)
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 	obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS)	+= madvise.o
@@ -83,7 +87,6 @@  obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN)	+= kasan/
 obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST)		+= memtest.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 63e5a0e9a6f3..94b0ec3d2ff2 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -42,7 +42,13 @@ 
 #include "internal.h"
 #include "shuffle.h"
 
-static bool memmap_on_memory;
+
+/*
+ * memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter
+ */
+static bool memmap_on_memory __ro_after_init;
+module_param(memmap_on_memory, bool, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(memmap_on_memory, "Enable memmap on memory for memory hotplug");
 
 /*
  * online_page_callback contains pointer to current page onlining function.